Plans for 5.20

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:41:44PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> I've sort of given up on the "full multiarch" thing for now. I think
> what we can do is just to mark perl as Multi-Arch: allowed (or maybe
> even foreign), and possibly perl-modules too. That doesn't need to be
> bundled with the major version update.
> 
> The big change packaging-wise is making libperl coinstallable between
> architectures (Multi-Arch:same), but that's also what turns up all the
> dpkg corner cases where the interpreter architecture doesn't match
> XS modules etc. As long as there's only a perl interpreter for one
> architecture on the system, it all stays simple.
> 
> I'll try and bring this up on debian-devel once more, hopefully by the
> weekend, but I don't think it should be coupled with 5.20.

For reference, that's now 
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00036.html
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00058.html
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org